Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-21


Spicy Manner.
Nison Frank, Baltimore, wooden dealer,
tailed. Liabilities, $4,000.
lucky Tuckwell, colored, Of Wheeling,
strangled to death on snuff
Mother Euphemia, head Of the Sisters Of
Charity in America, died at Emmettsburg,
Maryland
At Chicago Michael Holfnuslxy shot his
wife dead and suicided In q moment of de-
spondency
The worst shock Of earthquake since the
fatal Slst Of August was felt in South Caro-
lima Friday
st. Stephens church, New York, was
robbed Of its silver and gold altar service,
worth $4,00O
The home Of Frances Hodgson Burnett,
the novelist, at Washington, was partially
destroyed BY fire.
The Beta Theta ri society win give well
coming dinner TO Ex-Governor Hoadly, at
New York, March %.
A corrupt ring, modelled after the notori-
GUS Tweed ring, has been discovered among
the city officials Of London.
In quarrel at Knoxville, Tenn, Tip Har-
per cut Bud Carr's head off with an ak and
fled A lynching party is In pursuit
An ordinance is before the Richmond Wal
council TO issue a ..liquor drinkers license, =
the proceeds to go into the school fund
Further investigation into the bridge at
Boston, where Mondays accident occurred,
shows the bridge was defective and out Of re-
pair.
Capt, John Carlin, department commander
of West Virginia's G. A, r., died at Wheel
ing. During the war he was Gen Sigel's
chief OF artillery.
The bodies Of two tramps were found in
the hot-air fiue OF the Isabella furnace, at
Pittsburg. They had gone 10 there to sleep,
and were sulfocated.
the bodies of two unknown tramps were
found in the hot air fiue Of the Isabella fur
mace at Pittsburg. They had gone in there
to sleep, and were suffocated
Joseph Roy, of MerTillon, Wis, has been
appointed chef clerk in the postoffice depart
ment at Washing ton, IN place of Mr.. Nash,
made superintendent OF the railway mail SER
vice
AT Troy, Tenn, masked mob broke into
the Jail and compelled the jailer to pro
duca NJ illiafn Hardy, a mulatto charged
with the murder OF white man last fall,
. and halged him to a tree.
Tie latess presumably definite information
relative e the Baltimore 81 Ohio sale is, that
the Ives-s5sayner syndicate have paid $780,
900 OF the first million Of the purchase
noley and will advance the secons $500, 900
IL q couple OF days.
Tie scene of the late Bald Knobbers' ex.
citcnent IN Missouri was thrown into d par
oxysm of terror last night bv continued and
rapid firing near Oak, where tile prisoners
are confined. The supposed rescuing party
was nothing but harmless chariyari
The Southwestern Floods.
BISMARCK, Oak, March 21-The ice gorge
at Washburn, sixty miles above, has broken
and terrible flood is coming down the Mis-
souri, The ice at Fort Buford has Zone out
with rise OF thirty feet, the highest ever
known. Mandan is submerged to the second
story windows, and thousands of acres are
under water. The flood has already washed
away over $50, 600 worth of property and the
worst is to come The Northern Pacific
warehouse here has heen washed away. Loss
Sl,500 The water is now in the second
story Of houses along the river. Several
steamers are frozen in below here and their
destruction is inevitable. Some loss Of life
has occurred and many narrow escapes are
reported
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